Improved clothes-drying apparatus



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No. 37,686. Patented Feb. 17, 1863.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

CHARLES GOLDTHWAIT, OF SOUTH WEYMOUTH, MASSACHUSETTS.

IMPROVED CLOTHES-DRYING APPARATUS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 37,686, dated February17, 1863.

To all whom it may concern.- v

Beit known that I, GnAaLns GOLDTHWAIT, of South Weyniouth, in the countyof Norfolk and State of Massachusetts, have invented a new and usefulmeansfor facilitating the hanging out of clothes for drying, and alsofor facilitating the taking of them down after being dried and I dohereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exactdescription of the same, reference being had to the accompanyingdrawings, making a part of this specification, in which-- Figure lis aside view of my invention applied to a clothes-line, Figs. 2, 3, and 4,detached views of the same.

Similar letters of' reference indicate corresponding parts in theseveral figures.

The object of this invention is to obtain a simple and economical deviceto facilitate the hanging out of clothes for drying, and also to are.also, when ,dried, removed from the lineone piece at a time. This is aslow and tedious operation in cold weather, and is attendedwithconsiderable trouble in windy weatherdifliculties which it isbelieved are fully obviated by my invention.

The invention consists in the employment or use of hangers orsupplemental frames arranged in such a manner that the clothes may beapplied to them in the house or under cover'where the washing isperformed, the hangers or frames, with the clothes attached, beingplaced or suspended on suitable dryinglines prepared to receive them.

To enable those skilled in the art to fully understand and construct myinvention, 1 will proceed to describe it.

Arepresentsaclothes-line, attached to suitable posts, B, or arranged inany proper way out of doors, to receive the clothes for drying.

0 represents supplemental frames or hangers, which are composed of twoor more uprights, a, attached either to straight bars I) or to circularbars or hoops c. In Fig. 2 the uprights are shown attached to a hoop,and to straight bars I) in Figs. 3 and 4. The upper ends of theuprights'c a have hooks d d atached to them. These hooks may beconstructed of iron, well galvanized, in order to prevent oxidation, orthey maybe constructed of brass or any composition which will not rustso as to stain the clothes by coming in contactwith them. Thesesupplemental frames or hangers may be of any suitable length. Thoseprovided with the straight bars I) may be about four feet long. Thediameter of the hoop may be equal to the length of the bars.

The supplemental frames or hangers are suspended to the clothes-line Aby means'of the hooks d d, as shown in Fig. 1.

Fig. 4 shows the bar b at the upper ends of the uprights a a, a line, a,being attached to the lower ends of the uprights a a.

The operation is as follows A line is placed or stretched in the room orapartment in which the washing is performed, and the hangers or frames Gare suspended on said line. The clothes are secured on the bars I) orline 0, if

frames as-shown in Fig. the used, by means of clothes-pins, in. the sameway as they are secured on an ordinary clothes-line. W hen the hangersor frames are filled with clothes, the latter are encircled with one armand the hangers or framedctached from tlu line and placed in a properbasket or ,recep. role, and

'when all of the hangers or frames have been -a great deal of time andlabor, and in the winter season the exposure to col-d for anyconsiderable length of time is avoided, and this is an importantfeature, as during the winter season dangerous colds are frequentlycontracted in consequence of the washerwoman coming out of a warmapartment in and standing in the open air a considerable length of timeto fasten the clothes on the line.

I do not confine myself to the precise construction of the hangers orframes 0, for they may be modified in various ways. The frame shown inFig. at is a very good form of consbruotion, as it cannot be blown oflfrom the hooks d, and constructed in such a manner line, even if itmakes an entire revolution that the clothes may be secured upon them,

around it. and the hangers or frames suspended on the Having thusdescribed my invention, what line A, as herein set forth. I claim asnew, and desire to secure by Letters CHARLES GOLDTHWAIT. Patent, is-Witnesses: I The employment or use of the hangers or BENJAMIN L. OADY,supplemental clothes-frames (J, provided with CHAS. G. MORRILL.

